Depaneling machines separate circuit boards by bending, pinching, punching, routing, sawing or shearing. Small circuit boards are often assembled several at a time as part of one big panel. This ...

Manufacturing was not always the plan for Tempo Automation, a five-year-old circuit board assembly company. Before building its 8,000-square-foot factory in San Francisco, the company focused on ...

Abiding by these rules of thumb can help shape decisions on how to approach printed-circuit-board manufacture, with the “PCB assembler” playing a vital role. Many engineers, especially those just ...

Access our Reader Service Web site to quickly find and request information on products and services found in the pages of Machine Design. Through-hole reflow (THR) is a recently developed method of ...

Manufacturers rely heavily on automated equipment and robotic machinery to perform assembly tasks when it comes to creating circuit boards. Circuit boards are the lifeblood of modern electronics. To ...

Printed circuit boards (pcb) are a vital necessity for technology companies of all stripes. For most hardware tech companies, pcb suppliers ship quickly. What they don’t take into consideration is ...

The diagram above is a typical PCB layout in Altium Circuitmaker software. The days of “electro” and “mechanical” being separate disciplines are long gone. Virtually all mechanical systems now come ...